Residents of Baale Street, Igbo-Efon
in Eti-Osa Local Government Area, Lekki, Lagos State have revealed that the
brother and sister who died in the inferno that occurred on Sunday, was caused
by their mother.
Speaking with our correspondent
yesterday, residents said that the landlord of the building, Honorable Muyideen
Jinadu, while attempting to fight the fire, got consumed.
A resident said: “Honourable died while
trying to save his tenants and his house from fire.”
The fire was said to have started
after the kids’ mother, who came with them to visit a family member in the
compound, who had just put to bed. The woman went to the kitchen to switch on
the gas cooker and it exploded. The nursing mother and her visitor ran out,
leaving the two kids behind.
Aside from the two kids and landlord
that died, four other tenants who were affected are presently in different
hospitals. The corpses of the kids were later recovered from under the bed
where they took cover when the fire started.
According to the residents, the
mother of the kids disappeared into thin air since the incident. But one Mr.
Abago, residing at Shogotedo, has been identified as the father of the two
kids.
NT Metro on March
30, 2015, reported that a four-year-old boy and his one-year-old sister died in
a fire that gutter a bungalow at Igbo-Efon, Lekki on Sunday morning.
The brother to the Honourable,
Alhaji Babatunde Muyideen said he woke up Sunday morning to find that his
brother’s home had been razed by fire.
Babatunde said: “We’re sad about my
brother’s death. He was the head of our family. It around 8: am that I saw fire
and smoke coming out from one of the tenant’s kitchen. The fire quickly spread
to other apartments. We later discovered that the fire resulted from a cooking
gas which the mother of the two children that died, attempted to put on.”
Babatunde said that the kids and
their mother, who came to visit one of the tenants who just gave birth.
Babatunde further said: “We never
knew the children were in the compound. The mother of the children is nowhere
to be found. She ran away after the fire outbreak. The woman who gave birth
managed to escape the fire and was sitting in front of the mosque. The husband
of the woman, who just put to bed, also sustained injuries. He was among those
rushed to hospital. It was in the process of trying to arrest the fire, that my
brother got burnt. He died from complication resulting from the burnt.”
The younger sister to the late
Honourable, Shakiratu Jinadu, said the family had been plunged into mourning.
She said: “One of his four children,
Wale is in 300Level in the university. The other three are also in schools.
Aside from the property that was razed down, my brother kids lost their school
certificates and other vital documents.”
The grieving widow of the man, Mrs.
Kikelomo Jinadu, who is presently squatting after losing her home and husband,
said: “We have no roof to cover our heads. The same cloths we had on since Sunday
are what we are still had on. Our kids will soon start going back to school, we
need help from anybody. We need help from the Eti-Osa Local Government and the
state government too because my husband worked for the state as a politician
and Nigeria as a police officer."
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